MONNAIES 59 (2013)
Starting price : 280.00 €
Estimate : 450.00 €
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Starting price : 280.00 €
Estimate : 450.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 277
Mint name / Town : Serdica
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 24 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,79 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 3e
Emission: 4e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle sur un flan très large et ovale, parfaitement centré des deux côtés. Portrait consulaire de toute beauté. Joli revers de style fin, bien venu à la frappe. Belle patine grise avec des reflets métalliques mordorés. Conserve la plus grande partie de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la vente Gorny 160, n° 2486 et de la collection Daniel Compas “antoniniani et aureliani exceptionnels”
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C M AVR PROBVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié consulaire de Probus à gauche, vu de trois quarts en avant, tenant le scipio de la main droite (H2).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Marcus Aurelius Probus Augustus”, (L'empereur césar Marc Aurèle Probus auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : SOLI INVICTO/ -|-// KA.
Reverse description : Sol (le Soleil) radié debout de face, la tête à gauche dans un quadrige écartelé, levant la main droite et tenant un fouet et le globe de la main gauche.
Reverse legend : D
Reverse translation : “Soli Invicto”, (Au Soleil invaincu).
Commentary
Avec l’intégralité de son argenture. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Manteau consulaire, richement ornementé avec la toga picta et la toga palmata, une couronne sur la poitrine et un motif décoratif sur l’épaule.
With all its silver plating. Type 3 ribbons with rounded ends. Consular mantle, richly ornamented with the toga picta and the toga palmata, a crown on the chest and a decorative motif on the shoulder
With all its silver plating. Type 3 ribbons with rounded ends. Consular mantle, richly ornamented with the toga picta and the toga palmata, a crown on the chest and a decorative motif on the shoulder
Historical background
PROBUS
(06-07/276-09/282)
Probus was born on August 19, 232 in Sirmium. He led a brilliant military career during the reigns between Valerian I and Tacitus. Commander of the army of the East on the death of Tacitus, he was immediately proclaimed emperor and easily triumphed over Florian, who was assassinated. The situation is serious. The Rhine-Danubian limes gave way under the pressure of the Germanic invasions. Probus restores peace in Gaul, in Germania then in Rhaetia where he inflicts a severe defeat on the Germanic peoples, in Thrace where he crushes the Sarmatians and the Scythians, in Asia Minor which he cleans of looters and Pamphylian pirates, finally in Africa where he ends the incursions of the Blemmyes. In 280, he signed peace with Vahram II, Sassanid monarch. He must face the usurpations of Saturnin, Bonose and Proculus. Probus, having triumphed over all his adversaries, returned to Rome in 281 and celebrated his victories. Before preparing a new expedition against the Sassanids, he fell under the blows of his own soldiers at Sirmium in 282.
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